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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The pictures online of those spider bites scare the beejesus out of me.

People should have drawing salve and activated charcoal on hand to draw out the venom of a spider bite.


7 posted on 02/28/2014 5:19:09 AM PST by RummyChick
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The young daughter of the guy who built our house suffered a BR bite some years ago on her right arm. The bite grew from a red spot about the size of a dime to a full 2 inches across. The girl was treated at Mayo's in Rochester and today still has a deep scar but her arm was saved.
12 posted on 02/28/2014 5:31:34 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: RummyChick

The pictures online of those spider bites scare the beejesus out of me.


We moved from Seattle to KY about three years ago and it was the one thing that concerned me. However, my neighbor has been bitten twice. Both times he just went to the doctor and they do something like using a hole punch to take out the skin around the bite and it usually heals up almost like nothing ever happened.

Apparently their bite is not poisonous but it carries a flesh eating bacteria. That’s why you have to remove the flesh close to the bite. If you don’t you end up with pictures of your thumb, etc. on the internet to scare everyone. ;-)


29 posted on 02/28/2014 6:29:50 AM PST by cuban leaf
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Don’t know you’ve been bit most of the time.


31 posted on 02/28/2014 6:45:09 AM PST by IMR 4350
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I’m wondering where did he go for treatment? Was he offered hyperbaric oxygen along with advanced wound care?


36 posted on 02/28/2014 6:55:27 AM PST by nikos1121
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